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Adobe Experience Manager 6 Lead Developer Adobe Certified Expert Exam Guide Exam number: 9A0-396

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About Adobe Certified Expert Exams

To be an Adobe Certified Expert is to demonstrate expertise in helping clients realize value in an Adobe solutions.

Adobe's Certification exams follow industry-accepted procedures to ensure validity and reliability. We work with industry experts to create our exams, which represent real-world requirements and objectives for the job roles we certify.

This guide is designed to provide the recommendations needed to prepare for your Adobe Certified Expert exam, and help you determine when you are ready to take the exam. It will outline the knowledge and skills required of a "minimally qualified candidate" for a specific job role, which will be evaluated in the exam.

Adobe exams include unscored items that allow for collection of performance data. These questions are not calculated in your final results. Unscored items are randomly placed in the exam with sufficient time calculated to complete the entire exam.

How is the Adobe Experience Manager 6 Lead Developer Exam Structured?

Number of questions: 59

Time limit: 90 minutes

Passing score: All Adobe exams are reported on a scale of 300 to 700. The passing score for each exam is 550. For more information about scaled scoring, visit the FAQs.

How Do I Register for the Exam?

Our exams are delivered worldwide by PSI.

Exam name: Adobe Experience Manager 6 Lead Developer

Exam number: 9A0-396

Exam cost: $180 (US Dollars)

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PSI. 8. Scroll through the list of exams and press the Schedule Exam button for your exam. 9. Select your exam language and location to see test center options in your area. 10. Select an available date and start time. 11. Confirm schedule details to receive a booking confirmation. 12. Proceed to payment. 13. After payment is successful, you will receive an email confirmation your registration details and a

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What topics are covered on the Adobe Experience Manager 6 Lead Developer exam?

The tasks measured on the exam are grouped into the following domains:

Install and configure the AEM Environment

Build and deploy AEM projects

Build AEM components

Create and configure OSGi services

Setup content structure and taxonomy

Create AEM security policies

Set-up and configure deployment infrastructure

Troubleshoot AEM projects

Within each domain, there are specific tasks that you should be able to perform as an Adobe Experience Manager Developer:

Install and Configure the AEM Environment You should be able to identify the default runmode of the AEM server and apply best practices for installing AEM 6 on different operating systems. You should be able to determine the valid run modes to operate AEM, and state the configurations required for the installation on application servers. You should also be able to identify the supported operating system for installing AEM on an application.

Build and deploy AEM projects You should be able to apply version control management best practices, and apply standard procedures to create multi-module Maven projects. You should also be able to apply standard procedures to develop and debug an application using an IDE.

Build AEM components Given a scenario, you should be able to analyze and evaluate the usage of forms, metadata, and other features. You should be able to apply best practices to create and use client libraries and also to create, customize, and configure AEM components and dialogs. In a given scenario, you should be able to determine workflow steps and processes. You should be able to apply standard procedures to create and extent AEM components, templates, and page components.

Create and configure OSGi services You should be able to apply standard processes to manage OSGi bundles, services, and dependencies. You should also be able to analyze and evaluate the logs to identify discrepancies. Given a scenario, you should be able to determine the OSGi configuration, and you should be able to apply a standard process to create OSGi components and services.

Setup content structure and taxonomy

You should be able to apply best practices to manager user-generated content. Given a scenario, you should be able to analyze content structure and evaluate query efficiency. You should be able to

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apply standard procedures to manage AEM tagging framework. Given a scenario, you should be able to analyze workflows to setup multilingual sites

Create AEM security policies You should be able to evaluate AEM users and group permissions, and apply standard processes to setup us CUGs. You should also be able to evaluate ACLs and permission level for users/groups.

Setup and configure deployment infrastructure You should be able to analyze and evaluate logs and other artifacts to manage garbage collection and TAR optimization. You should be able to apply standard procedures for backend data store configurations and also apply standard procedures to integrate AEM applications with Marketing Cloud and third-party tools. You should be able to apply standard procedures to integrate AEM applications with LDAP/SSO/OAUTH Providers/Third-Party login authentication mechanisms.

Troubleshooting AEM projects You should be able to troubleshoot issues related to performance, functional issues, and also issues related to scalability bottlenecks.

Distribution of content covered on the exam:

The questions on the exam are distributed as follows for each domain. (Note: each question carries the same weight and there is no partial credit for any question)

Domain Percent of Exam

Install and Configure the AEM Environment 11%

Build and deploy AEM projects 10%

Build AEM components 15%

Create and configure OSGi services 15%

Setup content structure and taxonomy 15%

Create AEM security policies 10%

Set-up and configure deployment infrastructure 10%

Troubleshoot AEM projects 14%

The Adobe Experience Manager Lead Developer job role This exam is designed for individuals who are currently performing or have previous work experience with the job responsibilities of an Adobe Experience Manager Developer.

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The Minimally Qualified Candidate

To pass the exam, you must possess the minimum level of knowledge, skills, and abilities required of an Adobe Experience Manager Lead Developer, which are outlined below.

As an Adobe Experience Manager Lead Developer you should be able to perform the following tasks without any assistance:

Translate customer requirements into a content model

Use the JCR API to manipulate data and observe content changes

Use Sling API to manage sites and users including healthchecks,resource-mergers etc..

Use Apache lucene and solr indexing

Set up functional ACLs to manage the user roles and permissions

Setup a project using Maven archetypes and an IDE

Apply knowledge of CSS 3.0 and HTML5 to ensure a responsive design.

Write search queries using XPath and SQL

Write code units tests

Configure LDAP and Single Sign On (SSO) authentication.

Configure the Web Dispatcher.

Analyze and apply caching best practices.

Create and customize the AEM components

Create and use the OSGi service in the application

Create and integrate an AEM widget.

Create event listeners using Sling and JCR

Create and customize an AEM workflow.

Create workflow steps with dialogues

Set up Replication and Reverse Replication

Extend the UI using CoralUI

Use MSM-Blueprint and Livecopy in applications

Setup multilingual and multinational websites

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What is the typical job experience for minimally qualified candidates taking this exam?

A minimally qualified Adobe Experience Manager Lead Developer ty